Taliban policies are rolling back women's rights in Afghanistan 06:18. Afghanistan 's Taliban rulers have issued a "special decree" outlining women's rights under the regime, but getting an ...

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said on Thursday that Berlin was only in technical contact with representatives of ...

Under the Taliban's interpretation of Sharia law during the 1990s, women and girls could not work, gain an education, or even leave their homes without wearing a burka and being chaperoned by a ...

In the last two and a half years after regaining power in Afghanistan, the Taliban, have created the world’s most serious women’s rights crisis, systematically violating the rights of women ...

The Taliban said such fears were"baseless", and that they were "committed to the rights of women under the laws of sharia.". But such statements have only raised more questions, including just how ...

ISLAMABAD — The Taliban pledged Tuesday to protect the rights of women in Afghanistan under Islamic law to mark International Women’s Day, even as critics decried the erosion of human rights ...

A 'miserable' life for women and children in Afghanistan. In the days before their return to power, the Taliban had promised that women’s rights would be respected and claimed the new regime's ...

In Afghanistan, women are being erased by design. They have been cast out of schools, out of universities, medical colleges, public places of work, and sports fields. That the Taliban, which took ...

The U.N. this month once again called on the Taliban to reverse its oppressive policies and to take steps to ensure that human rights, particularly as they affect women and girls, are secured.

Arvin said that she can’t believe that all her freedoms and two decades of gains in women’s rights were lost in the past 2½ years of the Taliban’s rule. “I wish it was a dream.

The Taliban has banned women in Afghanistan from obtaining a university education,according to Tuesday reports. The move is the Taliban's latest abuse of human rights this year.

Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is the only country in the world where girls cannot go to school beyond the sixth grade, women are barred from working and even going to hairdresser salons. In fact ...